George Sarton

Also known as George Alfred Leon Sarton

Belgian-American historian of science (1884–1956)

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“… science is the most revolutionary force in the world.”
“The chief requisite for the making of a good chicken pie is chicken; no amount of culinary legerdemain can make up for the lack of chicken. In the same way, the chief requisite for the history of science is intimate scientific knowledge; no amount of philosophic legerdemain can make up for its absence.”
“Arabic science was the fruit of Semitic genius fertilized by the Iranian genius.”
“As I grew older my lectures became simpler; I tried to say fewer things and to say them better, with more humanity. This book continues in a different way the same evolution, but it is not yet as simple as I would have liked to have made it.”
“The ability of nonintelligent people to understand the most complicated mechanisms and to use them has always been to me a cause of astonishment: their inability to understand simple questions is even more astonishing. The general acceptance of simple ideas is difficult and rare, and yet it is only when simple, fundamental, ideas have been accepted that further progress becomes possible on a higher level.”
“Erudition without pedantry is as a rare as wisdom itself.”

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